© unknownNo empathy: Geir Lippestad, lawyer for Anders Breivik, said his client had taken strong drugs before allegedly embarking on a rampage that killed at least 76 people in Norway
- He believes in war you can do things like that without guilt'
- Breivik could be housed in the £150m Halden Prison - considered one of the most luxurious jails in the world
- Police say it will take two more weeks to find all the bodies
The Norwegian fanatic regards himself as a 'warrior', thinks he has started a '60-year war' and will be hailed as the 'saviour' of Western Europe in decades to come, said Geir Lippestad.
But before gunning down 76 people, he swallowed a cocktail of drugs known as an 'ECA stack' to make him 'strong and efficient' and rapidly lost count of the death toll.
It included ephedrine, a powerful stimulant sometimes used by athletes to improve performance, and caffeine and aspirin.
Breivik, who also listened to his iPod during the massacre, said the 'ephedrine rush' would increase his 'aggressiveness, physical performance and mental focus'.
Mr Lippestad branded his own client 'probably insane', adding: 'He is in a war and he believes that when you are in a war you can do things like that without pleading guilty.
'He also asked me exactly how many people he had killed during the attacks. He expects this is the start of a war that will last for 60 years.'
Breivik's 'Plan A' had been to raise £3million to publish his 1,500-page racist 'manifesto' about how to rid Europe of Muslims. But he claimed the stock market crash left him £2.5million short of his target, forcing him to embark on murderous 'Plan B'.
Yesterday it also emerged that the police SWAT team took 90 minutes by road and boat to reach Utoya island, where Breivik turned his guns on teenagers at a youth camp, because their helicopter crew were away 'on vacation'.
Terrified victims were also told, when they dialled police, to get off the line because authorities were busy with the Oslo car bomb that Breivik had set off earlier.
Police in Norway said yesterday it will take two more weeks to find all the bodies of his victims on the island, many of whom desperately tried to escape death by plunging into the near-freezing waters around the island.
© ReutersRevulsion: Geir Lippestad said Breivik has no idea about the strength of feeling and outrage against him
He is currently in police custody but could be moved to the £150million Halden Prison, considered one of the most luxurious jails in the world, where cells have flat-screen TVs and designer furniture.
Speaking at a press conference in the Norwegian capital, Mr Lippestad admitted he did not know why he had been chosen to represent Breivik. He is a lawyer for the Labour Party, which Breivik despises, but the pair apparently worked in the same building 15 years ago.
Mr Lippestad said the atrocity was 'absurd and horrible' and described his client as 'very cold' with no sign of empathy when they had met in a central Oslo police station cell. 'This whole case indicated that he is insane,' he said.
© AFP/Getty Images'At war': Breivik has claimed to have been working with two terror cells in Norway and others abroad before launching his attack
'He is sorry he had to do this but it was necessary to start the revolution in the Western world,' he said. Mr Lippestad also confirmed his client had taken drugs in order to be 'strong, efficient and awake' during his murder spree.
Breivik's lawyer said he was co-operating fully with the police, although he would not give any further details about the terror cells abroad, and claimed there would be other attacks.
© ReutersOutpouring of emotion: A young girl holds a single rose to be added to the floral tributes laid for the victims of last Friday's bomb attack and shooting massacre
© ReutersA solitary Norwegian flag flies amongst a sea of floral tributes placed outside Oslo Cathedral
Researchers also doubt Breivik's claim that he is part of a wider far-Right network of anti-Islam 'crusaders', seeing it as bragging by a psychopathic fantasist who has written that exaggeration is a way to sow confusion among investigators.
© Getty ImagesNorway Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg visits the scene of the bomb explosion in Oslo city centre
© Getty ImagesClear up: Work continues at the scene of Oslo's bomb blast
Four of the victims' identities were confirmed yesterday. They included Gunnar Linak, 23, who was talking to his father on his mobile phone when the massacre started. According to reports, he told him: 'Dad, dad there is a shooting, I have to go.'
Also confirmed dead were Tove Ashill Knutsen, 56, Hanna Orvik, 61, and Kai Hauge, 32.
© ReutersA woman brings flowers to a temporary memorial site where people pay their respects for the victims in last Friday's killing spree in front of Utoya island
© unknownSea of roses: 150,000 people grieve in unison last night for those who died in the bomb attack in Oslo and shootings on Utoyah Island
A country mourns: Thousands took to the streets to remember those killed in the twin attacks
© Getty ImagesDevastated: Norway's Princess Martha Louise (left) and Crown Princess Mette-Marit (right) wiped tears from their eyes as they gathered with hundreds of thousands of people for a memorial vigil
© unknownIdyllic: Halden Prison (pictured), where Breivik could be housed took 10 years to build and has been touted to be the most humane in the world for its 252 inmates
© unknownLuxury: Every private cell has a mini-fridge, flat-screen TV and even a private en-suite bathroom and barless windows to let in more sunlight
From the article:
"Calls for Utoya island to be turned into a shrine have been rejected by the Norwegian Labour party's general secretary Raymond Johansen, who said: 'To close the island would make him - and not us - the victor.' "
Is it just me, or does this statement reek? So it's better to "win" than to express empathy for the victims and their families? The killer has "won" if they build a shrine for the victims? As far as the victim's lives are concerned, the Breivik has already won. There's no need to turn the whole island into a shrine, I think. But it would good to do something, like make a shrine on the island somewhere in a nice place.